#DEEP MURDER MOVIE HOW TO#

There are no major chases or anything like that, and obviously nothing is played for scares, but the deaths are inventive and the killer's identity is kind of a surprise (thanks in part to the fact that it's slightly a cheat, but still). Indeed, what's most impressive about the film is how well it apes the style of your average Spice Channel offering -В the overlit cinematography, the horrendous music, the 'smart' characters who are just as stupid as anyone else (when she decides to try to help solve the mystery, the 'scientist' character inexplicably makes a 3rd-grade style baking soda volcano) -В while also functioning as a pretty decent slasher. The storm, by the way, is depicted with the occasional sound of thunder/rain and lots of ill-fitting cutaways, a cheap but usually amusing gag at the expense of the low production value of these things.

#DEEP MURDER MOVIE HOW TO#

When the first body is discovered and someone asks 'What do we do?', Jace (Chris Redd from SNL) replies 'Fuck?' and it's not the character trying to be funny - it's just literally the only thing the characters know how to do, and that includes the detective who shows up to solve the murder and the scientist who arrives just before the 'major storm' traps them all in the house for the night. It takes a minute to get used to this the closest recent approximation I can think of would be the NPCs in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, who only know their one line and have no idea what to do when confronted with anything else - but without an audience surrogate to point out those restrictions.

It's a strange concept for a film - the characters aren't aware they are IN a movie, like the kid in Last Action Hero or whatever, nor are they trying to escape their trapped existence like in Twilight Zone's 'Five Characters in Search of an Exit' - they just don't have much of an existence beyond whatever was originally in store for them before the murders. Knowing nothing but their (thinly described) job titles, and having sex with whoever happens to be closest to them at any given moment, they are at a severe disadvantage to figure out who might be offing them one by one, but they gradually become more aware that there's perhaps a world beyond bedroom antics. That's the central conceit of Deep Murder (which world premiered at the LA Film Festival), in which stock softcore characters (a jock, a babysitter, a bored trophy wife, etc) find themselves in the second least reputable of sub-genres: a slasher film.

So what happens when someone gets killed? One is that the people who inhabit the central location have the flimsiest reasons for being there, and another is that nearly every conflict can be resolved not with violence, but with sex. If you've ever taken the time to watch the 'other' parts of an adult film, you'llВ know a few things to be true.